Preview of ZFS on FreeNAS 0.7 Server

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Uploaded by on Aug 14, 2008

A short sneak preview and tutorial of using ZFS on FreeNAS 0.7 nightly build.

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  • @damoos I'd want to do that in order to stagger i/o across various hardware

  • @thelegendarypaki You can but you only the smallest drives size will be available to the zpool. i.e. 1.5 + 1 = 1

  • @proxicate Look up Raid6

  • @proxicate Zfs can work with files, never mind hardware.

    You can create an empty file, and then create a pool out of that file.

    If, why would you want to do that ? But you can.. :-)

  • @mkleinpaste does Raid-Zx have any advantages over raid 0,1 and 10?

  • Does ZFS only work with raw hardware devices and basically take them over or can it just work with a partial allocation of a drive such as software raid on linux?

  • ZFS is very nice about heterogenous drives. It won't be able to provide redundancy on 1.5TB if you only have 1TB + 1.5TB, but if you later replace the 1TB drive with a 2TB drive, then you will get 1.5TB redundant storage without having to do any backup or restore.

  • I am curious. I know somebody mentioned this before but I want to know if I can add different size HDDs to the ZFS.I have two 1 TB drives but I am getting a deal on 1.5 TB drive.

  • @hungarianhc

    That would be a mirror vdev then?

    If one drive fails (your pool will be "degraded" but still 100%online) you just replace it with a new drive and "resilver".

    If your drives are hot-swap the pool will never go offline, if it's not your pool will only be offline during shut-down/replacement.

    It will be online during resilvering.

  • ZFS supports its own version of RAID levels. It supports basic RAID 0,1&10. Then it has its own parity raid as follows:

    RAID-Z=min 3 drives with 1 being parity

    RAID-Z2=min 4 drives with 2 being parity

    RAID-Z3=min 5 drives with 3 being parity

    Because of ZFSs commit on write paradigm RAIDZ+ doesnt suffer the write commit whole. It still suffers the RAID5 IO penalty though.

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